We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
Ernest Hemingway (via purplebuddhaquotes)
The thing about a mother’s hate is that it’s not that different from a mother’s love.
Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far.
Mahmoud Darwish (via purplebuddhaquotes)
SELF CARE IS SO IMPORTANT!
thermonous
“Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you’ve been ruined.”
— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (Penguin Press, June 4, 2019) (via somnoroasa)
“Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.”
— Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted.”
— Abraham Verghese (via purplebuddhaquotes)
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Someone once said, “Are you sure you’re genuinely happy? Or are you just distracted?”
It’s stuck with me ever since
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poems-and-word
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (via books-n-quotes)
Source: booksnquotes.com
“What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify / anyone who leaves me—”
— Emily Skaja, from “Aubade With Attention to Pathos,” Brute
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Source: weheartit.com
books-n-quotes
“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
— André Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings (via books-n-quotes)
Source: booksnquotes.com
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you are choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
Kathleen Glasgow , Girl in Pieces
I’m sorry. If there’s a word for the slight glow of a lightbulb after you’ve turned it off, I don’t want to know it.
YOU WROTE THE RULES. READ THEM.
You can care about someone without letting them drain you of your energy. Remember that.
(via purplebuddhaquotes)